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Identity and world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse
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Abstract This article examines the dominant conception of world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse. Drawing on a poststructuralist, discourse-theoretical framework, I argue that the discourse uses foreign policy and world order as sites for the (re-)production of India's identity by plac... mehr
This article examines the dominant conception of world order in India's post-Cold War foreign policy discourse. Drawing on a poststructuralist, discourse-theoretical framework, I argue that the discourse uses foreign policy and world order as sites for the (re-)production of India's identity by placing India into a system of differences that constitutes 'what India is'. The article shows that India's foreign policy discourse frames world order in accordance with India's own national experiences and thus seeks to upheave India's identity to a position from where it can represent the universal: a global political community. This notion of Indian Exceptionalism constitutes the affective dimension of the discourse that obscures the absence of an extra-discursive foundation on which national identities could be grounded by endowing the Self with an imaginary essence and seemingly unique qualities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Weltordnung; Indien; Außenpolitik; Identität; nationale Identität; Diskurstheorie
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
exceptionalism
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 180-198
Zeitschriftentitel
Third World Quarterly, 40 (2019) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1552079
ISSN
1360-2241
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)